Once, he found many miners fighting in Yiwu. He didn't regard them as a bunch of thugs and unruly people. On the contrary, he can see that these people have the qualities of soldiers, courage and, of course, intelligence. Maybe the battle was clever at that time. He was deeply impressed by the battle, so he finally trained and recruited soldiers, mainly from Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, mainly to recruit local miners and farmers, and he specifically asked not to recruit city people. If you have fair skin, flexible eyes and are particularly easy to deal with, you won't talk. According to the standard, he should have dark skin, honest eyes and strong body to recruit such soldiers. At that time, in fact, many people were destitute and willing to make a living as soldiers.
According to centralization of authority in the Ming Dynasty, recruiting local officials was almost equivalent to rebellion, so Qi Jiguang's proposal to recruit Yiwu soldiers took great political risks. In addition, as a junior officer, Qi Jiguang was criticized and obstructed by his colleagues and superiors. But at that time, the anti-Japanese situation was urgent, and Qi Jiguang pushed his way through the crowd. Relying on these Yiwu soldiers, he established the later famous Qijia army.
According to the investigation of the editorial staff of Yiwu Local Records, it is true that miners fight with each other. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, it was widely rumored that there was a silver mine in Baylor Babaoshan, Yiwu. At that time, people in Chuzhou (now Lishui) mistakenly called Babaoshan Babaoshan, so they organized people to rob the mine, so the local Yiwu people clashed with it and caused a fight. In fact, there is no silver mine in Babaoshan. It was specially explored in the Qing Dynasty and nothing was found.
The staff of Yiwu Editorial Department believes that the reason why Qi Jiguang came to Yiwu to recruit soldiers is not a struggle between miners, but a period of history. Qi Jiguang saw in the history books that "eight thousand soldiers of Xiang Yu were all injured by Wu ..." So he decided to come to Yiwu (formerly known as Wu Shang). Qi Jiguang himself specifically mentioned this situation in his anthology Stop the Hall. Wu Han, an expert in Ming history, also discussed this and agreed with this statement.
Qi Jiguang recruited the first batch of soldiers in Yiwu on 1559. At first, there were more than 3000 soldiers. Later, some township groups joined in and gradually expanded to 4000 soldiers. After repeated ideological education, organizational construction and military training in Qi Jiguang, it became an unstoppable team.
156 1 April, thousands of Japanese pirates looted Taizhou. After receiving the alarm, Qi Jiguang resolutely led the elite Yiwu soldiers to Ninghai, defeated the Japanese army in Longshan, and the enemy retreated to Yanmenling. Qi Jiajun still pursued, and finally wiped out the enemy.
Qi Jiguang led the Qigujun in nine consecutive wars, winning every battle, and captured, captured, beheaded, burned and drowned more than 5,400 enemies. From then on, when the enemy heard the Yiwu soldiers commanded by Qi Jiguang, they were frightened and fled. Qi Jiajun played a military power and made a name for himself. When Qi Jiajun triumphed, Taizhou people cheered, sang and danced to meet the front 10 km, which was touching.
During the Taizhou War, Qi Jiguang admired Yiwu soldiers for their bravery and good fighting skills, so as to strengthen their ranks and military strength. 156 1 year, Qi Jiguang personally went to Yiwu to recruit soldiers, and this time he recruited more than 3,000 people.
Later, Qi Jiguang went to Yiwu twice to recruit soldiers, each time 10000. So Qi Jiguang recruited 26,000 people in Yiwu.
A number of Yiwu famous soldiers such as Tong, Wang Rulong, Zhu Wenda, Chen Ziluan, Ye Dazheng, Wu Weizhong, Lou Nan and Lou emerged in the Qijiajun. Anti-Japanese garrison, many Yiwu soldiers fell in a foreign land forever.